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Anne Dailey

Anne C. Dailey, Evangeline Starr Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development. Professor Dailey teaches Family Law, Federal Courts, Women and the Law, Law and Theories of Human Nature, and Child Development and the Law. After receiving her B.A. from Yale University in 1983, Professor Dailey attended Harvard Law School where she graduated, magna cum laude, in 1987. While in law school, she was co-chair of the Articles Office of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, she clerked for Judge Jose A. Cabranes of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut and then worked for two years as a litigation associate at the New Haven law firm, Wiggin & Dana. She began teaching at the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1990, and in 1995 spent one semester as a visiting associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Professor Dailey's writings have been published in the Duke Law Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Texas Law Journal, and the Yale Law Journal, among others. Her current research focuses on the importance of psychoanalytic ideas in the history of legal thought and for contemporary theories of individual decisionmaking in law. She also writes on the value of developmental psychology to modern conceptions of citizenship and the family.

Recent Courses

• Federal Courts (Spring 2008)
• Family Law (Fall 2007)
• Federal Courts (Spring 2007)
• Family Law (Fall 2006)
• Women and the Law, Readings in (Fall 2006)
• Federal Courts (Spring 2006)